Writing & Scheduling commands on RH9

[Jason Dixon]

On Jun 5, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Angelo wrote:

> Hello all and thanks in advance.
>
> 1. I'd like to know which scripting language should I be writing
> scripts in for RH9 for system administration (which does the system
> recognize and is more robust for RH9)?

Whichever you're the strongest in.  If you're not experienced with any, 
then find one that is best suited for the type of administration tasks 
you need to handle.  I prefer Perl for times I need to do a lot of text 
mangling.  For those times I just need simple process administration, 
I'll fall back on simple bash scripts.  Others prefer Python or even 
other shells.

> 2. Also, how can I schedule scripts that I write to run at certain 
> times?

Either "cron" or "at" will work for you.  Cron is an way of automating 
commands at scheduled intervals.  "At" is a command for scheduling 
one-time events.

> 3. How can I set up my system to run a script and track that it ran in
> one log? (I'm assuming it's the system log??)

Anytime a cron entry is run, the results are mailed to the cron owner 
(by default).  You could modify your cron entry to pipe through logger 
and write to syslog, if that's what you prefer.

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Jason Dixon
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